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What can I expect during bowel cancer screening – and am I eligible?

What can I expect during bowel cancer screening – and am I eligible? - Bowel cancer is treatable and curable, especially if ...

How to check if you are eligible for bowel cancer screening and what to expect

While mammograms and smear tests are widely recognised, a crucial screening for bowel cancer often goes unnoticed, with new ...
Medscape

Elevated Faecal Immunochemical Test Result in Symptomatic CRC Increases Risk for All-Cause and Non-CRC Mortality

In an English cohort study, patients with symptomatic presentation of colorectal cancer (CRC) and faecal immunochemical test (FIT) results ≥ 10 µg of haemoglobin (Hb)/g had a higher risk for 1-year ...
EurekAlert!

Researchers offer solution to help tackle patient backlog in the NHS bowel cancer screening program

In England, 37 people die each day from bowel cancer, but screening using faecal blood testing followed by a colonoscopy can reduce both the incidence of this cancer and the number of resulting deaths ...
JSTOR Daily

False-negative rate cannot be reduced by lowering the haemoglobin concentration cut-off in colorectal cancer screening using faecal immunochemical test

Gemma Ibañez-Sanz, Montse Garcia, Núria Milà, Francisco Rodríguez-Moranta, Gemma Binefa, Javier Gómez-Matas, Llúcia Benito, Isabel Padrol, Mercè Barenys ...
New Scientist

What do home faecal test kits really reveal about our gut microbiome?

The science of our gut microbiome is often painted as one of the hottest new areas of medicine, but there have also been claims that the research is being overhyped. The latest aspect of this field to ...